Brian Mawhinney

Brian Mawhinney (26 July 1940-9 November 2019) was the British Conservative Party MP for Peterborough from 3 May 1979 to 1 May 1997 (succeeding Michael Ward and preceding Helen Clark) and MP for North West Cambridgeshire from 2 May 1997 to 11 April 2005 (preceding Shailesh Vara).

Biography
Brian Mawhinney was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 26 July 1940, and he became a radiation physicist and a professor before entering 1974 as the unsuccessful Conservative Party candidate for the Stockton-on-Tees constituency in the House of Commons. He went on to serve as MP for Peterborough from 1979 to 1997 and as MP for North West Cambridgeshire from 1997 to 2005, and he served as Minister of State for Health from 1992 to 1994, Secretary of State for Transport from 1994 to 1995, Minister without Portfolio and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1995 to 1997, and Shadow Home Secretary from 1997 to 1998. Upon leaving the House of Commons in 2005, he became a life peer of the House of Lords, dying in 2019 at the age of 79.